Soaring Fertilizer Prices: Millions More Undernourished

SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods— a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from “JWR”. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. Today, we look at expected lower grain crop yields, because of the jump in fertilizer prices.

Soaring Fertilizer Prices: Millions More Undernourished

Reader C.B. sent us this disturbing news: Soaring fertilizer prices could see millions more undernourished. The article begins:

“High fertilizer prices could put an additional 100 million people at risk of undernourishment, a study suggests.

The war in Ukraine has led to the blockade of millions of tons of wheat, barley and corn, but reduced food exports from the region are less of a driver of food price rises than feared, researchers say.

Instead, a modeling study led by University of Edinburgh researchers suggests surging energy and fertilizer prices will have by far the greatest impact on food security in coming decades.

Until now, how energy and fertilizer price rises and export restrictions affects future global food prices was poorly understood. There has also been little analysis to quantify the scale of harm that hikes in the price of food could have on human nutritional health and the environment.

The team used a global land-use computer model to simulate the effects of export restrictions and spikes in production costs on food prices, health and land use until 2040.”

“The storm in Buffalo has been deemed more ferocious than the blizzard of 1977, which left 23 people there dead. The weekend weather ‘was just horrendous,’ Poloncarz said earlier. ‘And it was horrendous for 24 hours in a row.’

Indeed, blizzard conditions were recorded for 37.5 hours, CNN meteorologist Tom Sater said, noting, ‘That just doesn’t happen.’

Even emergency and recovery vehicles were at times stuck in snow. ‘We had rescuers rescuing the rescuers,’ Buffalo Deputy Mayor Crystal Rodriguez-Dabney told CNN This Morning on Tuesday, adding those problems have been resolved.

Hundreds of vehicles were abandoned in the snow in Buffalo, New York State Police Acting Superintendent Steven Nigrelli said, adding authorities were going door-to-door, car-to-car, checking for people.”

10 Military Winter Survival Skills

Tim J. suggested this instructional video, at YouTube: 10 Military Winter Survival Skills.

The Preppers Were Right All Along

Columnist Amanda Little of the Bloomberg news service admits: The Preppers Were Right All Along. A pericope:

“Just when Augason Farms and other major survival food brands, from Mountain House to ReadyWise and My Patriot Supply, were beginning to see a softening of demand this summer as Americans returned to pre-pandemic behavior, the worsening impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine hit, along with rising fuel costs and inflation, and withering drought and heat waves in the western US and Europe. Then came Hurricane Ian, which caused nearly $2 billion in agricultural damage in Florida alone. Survival food sales have remained strong.”